Crystal River current., 1887-07-02
As to Dress and Color.

The world teaches us i'll silent every
day lessons to love beauty in
every form-until a beautiful face,
a beautiful dress. Il beautiful form,
or beautiful room, becomes as
pleasing to our sight as a sweet flower
or any other lovely object in nature;
and, if we love personal beauty, if it
pleases our eye and rests and satisfies
our heart. is it not worth cultivating.
just us our flower gardens are worth
cultivating for their bright beauty and
for the fragrance they shed about usp-
or, our straw berries for their luclous
taste to satisfy the palatep
Beauty is one OF the great needs of
human nature, and most people are UNI
consciously grateful for it. To give
pleasure to others is certainly in itself
Il high aim, and the woman who makes
herself and her surroundings as grace
full and lovely as may be is something
like unto '.joy forever" Now. no
woman, whether she be comparatively
pretty OF superlatively homely, can look
as well us nature intended her to, I'M
less she is careful and painstalling about
her dress, careful us TO its fitness in
texture and make, and us to It's suit
ibleness of color. Ii is very difficult to
know what color will be the most be-
coming, and still this is considered II
matter Of the most vital importance.
We can all understand that their may
be very plain garments rs well As very
plain faces and natures, that yet have
nothing repnlslve about them, that do
not stop with a sudden shock ones
pleasure in being, that do not dissatsfy,
perplex, or annoy one; all dresses might
hayetheir beauty, for it consists solely in
a garment being becoming and sensible,
and all faces might have it, because it
is the reflection from an intelligent
mind and kindly heart.
We have heard women say that they
did not care whether they were pretty
and attractive or not. but we have new
er believed it. because we cam not be-
lieve it. Certainly no woman who IS
loving and beloved, but mast wish TO
look pare and sweet and lovrlY. ut
least in the eyes of one; and no moth
er but desir es that her face may seem
to her little ones the f;l rest and dear
est of all on the earth. Then, although
all women cannot be beautiful, let
those who are plain do the best they
can to make those they love. and who
loNS III Stl lll.tl MY,
and remember hat it is not Il sin. or II
folly. to try to be lovely.
There $ II general rule that all col
ors in dress to be becoming, must be
subservicu, to the complexion, but rs
compilations are as various rs the
blades OF the wonderous striped
grass, no two exactly alike, it
is difficult to know how to de-
eide as to what is subservient. We
are told that if one has blue eyes, she
should never wear blue of a brighter
hue, because it will make the eyes APP
pear light and faded; again it has been
generally supposed that brunettcs
should not wear blue. Yet, we all have
occasionally seen some bright black
eyed, dark haired maiden, robed in
fleecy cloud of blue, and yet seeming
the very rose bud of some lovely .'blos-
soming garden of girls" when by all
known rules, she should have looked
like "perfect fright in the garments
she wore. One writer on the colors in
dress, says: I'VE see contrasts i'll nature,
but they are always softcncd, one color
shading into the other at the edges;
from this we take the hint, and when
wearing black dress, either use thin
white material about the neck. to soften
down the contrast, or else thin black
to shade the whiteness of the skin into
the black color of the garment Only
under these conditions can the sudden
contrast enhance the fairness of the
complexion"
Transparent white, as we have said,
has much the effect of gray, and the
brilliant OBJECT and exquisite charm of
light colors for summer wear. is be-
coming more fully understood and ac-
knowledged. Their delicious GOODNESS.
and daintness of appearance, as well
as their durability. and the ease with
which when soiled they can be made to
look as good as new, renders white
suits very becoming and desirable for
summer wear.-St. Louis Mayasi1se.
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